The Coffin, the Ship by Mel Kassel from BWR 46.1 At dawn, I look out the porthole and wait for my vampire. Here’s what will happen: he’ll knock gently on the ship’s hull. I’ll push the circle of glass outward, and he’ll slip inside as a rush of Spanish moss. He’ll...
” ‘What it Took’ is—thankfully, blessedly, refreshingly—strange. Visceral and seething, this story contains all the ingredients of a forbidden spell, and reading it is like tucking into an ancient grimoire. The most affecting stories are often...
The Empty by Panpan Song from BWR 46.1 I. Prayer for the Feeding of the Hungry Ghosts In the fall of 2013, I had recently moved to New York, when I ran into an acquaintance from some years ago in Shanghai. He was working for an investment bank in Midtown and said, if...
Socratic Wig by Sara Kachelman from BWR 46.2 A reading by the author https://bwr.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Socratic-Recording.m4a I found my mother’s hair on a foam head at Wigland. It lit up the downtown window display. Above it a sign said: the last true...
Extermination by Mónica Ramón Ríos Translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers from BWR 46.2 A reading of the English by the translator https://bwr.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Extermination-English-Reading.m4a A reading of the Spanish by the author...
Bereavement Table for a Top Model Imagined Stine An from BWR 46.2 For a PDF click here. 1993. 10. 24 (Reward) :: Die for one’s country, little woman, like hometown patriot martyr Ryu Gwan-sun, MissKorea In Memoriam Again: propagate your post, a coronet casket,...
